[support #102277] Feat-requ: locate -e to unignore danglin

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Support Request #102277, was updated on Thu 07/17/2003 at 17:26
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Category: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: Feat-requ: locate -e to unignore danglin

By: ametzler
Date: Thu 07/17/2003 at 17:26
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Feature request: Option for locate -e to _not_ follow
symlinks


Version: 4.1.20

Jeff Sheinberg has requested in
http://bugs.debian.org/159221 that he would like to
have an option which stops locate -e from ignoring
dangling symlinks. He suggest to use -P (SUSv3) for
enabling and -H" and/or "-L" (default-behavior) for
disabling this option.

A patch should be simple, you'd just have to use
lstat() instead of stat().
       cu andreas


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